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chris megargee
Global Partnerships

Chris Megargee is Director of Community & Corporate Relations for Global Partnerships (GP), a 16-year-old Seattle-based nonprofit that expands opportunity for people living in poverty. In that capacity, he coordinates GP’s PartnerTrip program, biannual trips to see microfinance in action in to Latin America. He has lived, worked and studied in Bolivia, El Salvador and Spain, and has traveled extensively throughout Central and South America.

Articles by chris megargee

  • Saturday
    July 3
    2010

    chris megargee

    The Unsung Heroes of Microfinance

    Like many microfinance loan officers, Justiniano has a background that is very similar to the clients that he serves. He grew up in a poor, rural community: His parents were small farmers, working a tiny plot of land with a few animals. An agronomist by training, he has served as a loan officer with CRECER for 11 years. He is on the frontline.

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